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Metals such as iron and zinc are essential nutrients because of the critical roles they play in a large number of biochemical processes. Iron, for example, readily donates and accepts electrons from substrates and can display a broad range of oxidation-reduction potentials depending on the ligand environment surrounding the metal cation. Because of this unique property, iron is an important cofactor of several metalloenzymes such as ribonucleotide reductase and aconitase. Moreover, iron is required for heme biosynthesis and the activity of many hemecontaining enzymes such as catalase, the cytochromes of the electron transport chain, and hemoproteins involved in oxygen transport. Zinc, in contrast, has only one biologically relevant valence but is essential because it is an integral cofactor of over 300 different metalloenzymes and is indispensable to their catalytic activity and/or structural stability. Examples include alkaline phosphatase, alcohol dehydrogenase, aspartate transcarbamoylase, carbonic anhydrase, and several proteases. Zinc is also an important component of enzymes involved in transcription and of accessory transcription factors, the zinc-finger proteins, that regulate gene expression.
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Eide, D. (1998). The Molecular Biology of Iron and Zinc Uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . In: Silver, S., Walden, W. (eds) Metal Ions in Gene Regulation. Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5993-1_13
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